BRAZEN THIEF

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 186, 25 July 1935, Page 15

BRAZEN THIEF

Girl Who RobbeiJ Hospital Remarkable details of the career of a Yorkshire girl In London were given before Mr. Bernard Campion, K.C., the magistrate at Westminster, when tsora Smith, aged 23, a book-keeper, ol Pimlico, pleaded guilty to stealing £lOO from the National Hospital for Dentures, where she had been employed. Deteetive-Seigeant Allen said that Smith was placed on probation at Bromley in October for stealing clothing from a hospital where she was a nurse. Implicit trust was placfgl in her at the Hospital for Dentures. She began duty at 27/6 a week, but her work proved so good that after a fortnight she was offered an increase, bin replied, ‘ 1 As this hospital is maintained by voluntary contributions I should not think of taking anything extra.” Tn consequence the fullest confidence was placed in her. Although she had said she was paying 14/6 a week rent for the two rooms she occupied, she was paying 30/-, and kept a servant. Telling her friends that she was a private secre tary and also had an income of her own, she invited them to cocktail parties at her rooms. Mr Campion: Is this what one might call swollen head, wanting to show off and so on J It is a well-known disease among some people, but ‘‘showing off” with £lOO stolen from a charitable institution is a very wicked thing. Addressing Smith, Mr. Campion said: I will not put. yon on probation lignin; it wonid be making a mockery of the Act. You will go to prison for five months. Smith walked out. nf the. dock emilin g.